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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Elvis 1.3
Keywords: Mine won't work
Message-ID: <3019@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 6 Sep 90 04:18:13 GMT
References: <69@wiesje.hobby.nl>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <69@wiesje.hobby.nl> baron@wiesje.hobby.nl (Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst) writes:

>I did the same edit (adding the -F option).  Then it took Wiesje (my
>XT) about 60 to 70 minutes to find out that asld got out of memory!!
>So I added the -DNO_SENTENCE option to the Makefile too, and that made
>it to compile completely.  But now the resulting binary won't work!!
>It gives the message "foobar (new file) 1 line" and the hangs the
>system.  The only way out is F9 :-(

I managed to compile elvis straight out of the box (so to speak):

16 bit systems:
    Elvis will Enot compile using bcc. To be more precise, Elvis will compile
    but the resulting executable has slightly more than 64k of executable. I
    compiled Elvis with no problems using ACK. Make sure you've chmem'ed all
    the important passes to have 64k (cem, asld in particular). I am not using
    a ram disk so this may affect how you compile Elvis. I used the Minix
    makefile that was distributed with Elvis.

    After you've finished compiling (if you haven't fallen asleep in the
    iterim) --- check the size of the executable with the size(1). Also
    make sure you compiled with -i (separate i&d). Make sure you chmem
    so that Elvis has a fighting chance.

32 bit systems:
    bcc will compile Elvis to just over 64k of text. Runs without problems
    (other than the built-in bugs :-). I used the bsd makefile (with a few
    modifications).
    
In both versions, cursor motion is still sometimes a little strange.

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146
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